Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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alee At eon mt OP FI Coy By RUTH B. KEERAN ew ee ee ey, =D cS = AvsurN, Inp., JUNE 2, 1929. My Dear Frienp, Miss B—, Tonight I find it impossible to erase from memory the events of twenty-five years ago. I wonder if you remember as well as I that it is just that long since we, eleven girls of 1904, re- ceived our diplomas from the Auburn High School. Since then the wheel of time has revolved and its revolution has brought the members of the class to their various destinations, toward which we resolutely set our faces June 2, 1904. There was that mixed feeling of joy and sadness that those who have experienced saying good bye to school days can best define; joy because life with its possibilities was before us and we thought of the words of our motto, ‘ Excellency or Nothing,’’ and | think we all silently resolved that night to keep this thought in mind and by using the weak powers which God had given us reach the highest goal attainable. However, above all our ambitions was that mutual deep feeling ofsilent sadness as the thought came that the time had come to cut the bonds of that pleasant class fellowship which had marked twelve long years of our school life. How we talked it over that night. How we dreaded to say good bye to the good times which a school girl alone understands how to have. We seemed to think that all was over until some one quoted that little stanza, thinking it especially applicapable to our case. « Dreamer, waiting for darkness with sorrowful drooping eyes, Linger not in the valley bemoaning the day that is done, Climb the eastern mountains and welcome the rosy skies, Never was the setting so fair as the rising sun.”’ But I must stop my soliloquy, for that is not my purpose in this letter. It has recently been my great pleasure to learn the whereabouts ofall the spinsters of 1904, and thought you would be inter- ested in hearing of them too. I met several of the girls, for which I must still call them, recently at Washington, D. C., where I went to attend the inauguration. I arrived at Wash- ington the night of the third of March, and went to tne hotel. The next morning as I was in the dining hall I was attracted by the appearance of a young lady and an elderly gentleman at a table opposite my own. ‘There was a facination about the young lady I could not resist for J thought I had seen her somewhere. Later | encountered the same people. ‘The gentlemen was a very distinguished looking man and as I came upon them, a gentlemen whom | knew to be our

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JUNIOR CLASS. Tohn Hoff Ray Thomas Dorsey Hines Jesse Shull Harry Casebeer Guy West Bessie Kinsey Rosamond McIntyre Maud Harrison Drusilla Baker Anna Dunnebarger

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SOPHOMORE CLASS. Harrison Rohrbaugh, Verah Myers, Mildred Wilson, Ilif Brown, Grace Hines, Esther Baxter, Leo Scott, Velma Suman, Alice Rakestraw, Hazel Platter, Burgess Fitch, Amber Quince, George Emanuel, Fay Tucker.